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Professor Steven Higgins' Outputs (150)

The impact of interactive whiteboard technology on medical students' achievement in ESL essay writing: an early study in Egypt (2011)
Journal Article
Albaaly, E., & Higgins, S. (2011). The impact of interactive whiteboard technology on medical students' achievement in ESL essay writing: an early study in Egypt. The Language Learning Journal, 40(2), 207-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2010.543953

This study investigated the impact of the interactive whiteboard on Egyptian medical students' achievement in essay writing in English as a second language (ESL). First, the writing micro-skills judged essential to help these students improve their e... Read More about The impact of interactive whiteboard technology on medical students' achievement in ESL essay writing: an early study in Egypt.

Learning to Learn with Parents: lessons from two research projects (2010)
Book Chapter
Hall, E., Wall, K., Higgins, S., Stephens, L., Pooley, I., & Welham, J. (2010). Learning to Learn with Parents: lessons from two research projects. In A. Campbell, & S. Groundwater-Smith (Eds.), Action research in education : key examples of action research in schools within international settings (121-135). SAGE Publications

Teaching for understanding/understanding for teaching (2010)
Book Chapter
Barmby, P., Harries, A., & Higgins, S. (2010). Teaching for understanding/understanding for teaching. In I. Thompson (Ed.), Issues in teaching numeracy in primary schools (45-57). McGraw-Hill

The impact of interactive whiteboards on classroom interaction and learning in primary schools in the UK (2010)
Book Chapter
Higgins, S. (2010). The impact of interactive whiteboards on classroom interaction and learning in primary schools in the UK. In M. Thomas, & E. Cutrim-Schmid (Eds.), Interactive whiteboards for education : theory, research and practice (86-101). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-715-2

The UK Government's Primary National Strategy undertook a pilot programme "Embedding ICT in the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies" where interactive whiteboards were installed in the classrooms of teachers of 9-11 year old students in more than 80 sch... Read More about The impact of interactive whiteboards on classroom interaction and learning in primary schools in the UK.

Reasoning in children and adolescents. (2009)
Journal Article
Resing, W., Elliott, J., & Higgins, S. (2009). Reasoning in children and adolescents. Educational and Child Psychology, 26(3),

The array representation and primary children's understanding and reasoning in multiplication (2009)
Journal Article
Barmby, P., Harries, T., Higgins, S., & Suggate, J. (2009). The array representation and primary children's understanding and reasoning in multiplication. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 70(3), 217-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-008-9145-1

We examine whether the array representation can support children’s understanding and reasoning in multiplication. To begin, we define what we mean by understanding and reasoning. We adopt a ‘representational-reasoning’ model of understanding, where u... Read More about The array representation and primary children's understanding and reasoning in multiplication.